Stanley Webb Davies Arts & Crafts Lakes School Extending Tea Trolley 1957.

Fitness for Purpose and Pleasure in Use

An Arts & Crafts Lakes School Extending Tea Trolley by Stanley Webb Davies 1957. A beautifully made item by this leading Arts and Crafts maker, ideal for use as a trolley or side table. Featuring:

  • Solid English Oak throughout.
  • Very well figured quarter-sawn English Oak (quarter-sawing is a way of sawing oak to produce boards with superior strength which also reveals decorative 'medullary rays' in its grain).
  • Two plank under-tier shelf.
  • Original castors.
  • Rectangular two plank top with single plank drop-leaf sides supported by sliding oak supports.
  • Traditional blind tenons.

Approximate dimensions are:

  • Overall Length 735mm (2 feet 4 3/4 inches).
  • Overall Height 610mm (2 feet).
  • Overall Width 510mm (1 foot 8 inches).
  • Overall Width Extended 890mm (2 feet 11 inches).
If you need a very exact dimension, or one we haven't included, feel free to contact us and we will measure it for you.

1957.

Expertly carved Stanley Webb Davies motif, the motif for `sidney Allan Johnson [the craftsman] and date of 1957.

Very good condition with excellent rich colour and grain, smoothly sliding leaf supports, tight joints and original finish. Some minor marks on the top. If you wish to have further specific photographs or talk to us for a more detailed condition report then please do not hesitate to contact us.

An outstanding furniture workshop and one of the premier makers of top class Arts and Crafts furniture. He designed pieces in the Cotswold School style, which were all individually hand made, with decorative trademarks features including exposed pegged joints, alternating thumb nail chisels and rounded tops. Materials, workmanship and design are always of the exceptional quality. Stanley Webb Davies items very rarely come onto the market.

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The Arts & Crafts Lakes School was a development of the Arts and Craft Cotswold School. The most significant designers and makers were Arthur Simpson, in Kendal, Stanley Webb Davies at Windermere and the Keswick School of Industrial Arts. Peter Hall of Staveley still produces furniture in this tradition. The Lakes School maintained the ideals with its simple lines, attention to the finest of details, the use of beautiful locally materials and the focus traditional tools and techniques. In fact Stanley Webb Davies' workshop didn't use any power tools at all, even to cut logs from timber! The dominant material was English Oak and typical decorative details often include exposed joints and subtle carved details.

An Arts & Crafts Lakes School Extending Tea Trolley by Stanley Webb Davies 1957. A beautifully made item by this leading Arts and Crafts maker, ideal for use as a trolley or side table. Very good condition with excellent rich colour and grain, smoothly sliding leaf supports, tight joints and original finish. Some minor marks on the top.
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Stanley Webb Davies Arts & Crafts Lakes School Extending Tea Trolley 1957.

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